The BBC being absolutely on the button.
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel many such cases
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
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Media talking to the experts be like
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel WOT??
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel their chief political correspondent had never heard of anarcho-syndicalism a few years ago either.
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel Tech correspondents right now frantically asking ChatGPT how is website made?
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel Being Bloody Clueless.
Imagine being called a military correspondent if your first piece to camera was “I’ve discovered these things called guns, they’re great, now listen to my opinions on wars”
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel How about instead of “Cyber Correspondent” they try talking to “Run of the mill sysadmin”?
While I realize we aren’t generally as photogenic, they might actually have a clue
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel I am not a programmer, I just had a couple of Word Press websites and even I know what PHP is.
How badly is the BBC paying these days.
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel 🤭
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I am reminded of when a "tech journalist" (I think for the BBC, but my memory is hazy) discovered that WhatsApp groupchats have a limit of 1024 members, and rather than thinking "oh yes that's 2^10, nothing to see here", seemed genuinely puzzled why they'd picked such an arbitrary number
Not knowing what PHP is, is arguably worse, but...
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
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If your 'expert' doesn't know of the existence of something basic to their field of alleged expertise then maybe they aren't the 'expert' you pay them to be!
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW PHP IN THAT POSITION???
Man we are so cooked.
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel He was too busy cybering. — Vi
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@rachel How about instead of “Cyber Correspondent” they try talking to “Run of the mill sysadmin”?
While I realize we aren’t generally as photogenic, they might actually have a clue
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel "Cyber Correspondent" = some BBC bigwig's son who has shown another BBC journalist a TikTok clip.
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel Please don't show this to Ed Zitron
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The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel lol I can't anymore
"Joe Tidy" that's just gotta be made up -
The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really???
️@rachel he's probably spent most of his career as a metaverse torso?
I still resent them cutting the Click Online / Click / Digital Planet teams - many know what 
